Omar Bin Khattab ( Series ) Full

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God has spared us great strife

By God, we were never tested in any situation with God's Messenger

as we have been tested today.

We had the tragedy of the Prophet's death

and our fear that the bond between Muslims would be severed after his death.

He was among us, protected from error by God who bestowed revelations on him.

We accepted his guidance and obeyed him.

Then, suddenly,

we are left to our own devices on a very hard day and great test,

with great consequences for the Muslim community,

setting its affairs on the right footing.

In His infinite wisdom,

God has left it to the Muslims to determine through the process of consultation

and as suits their conditions of time and place.

What keep them from error are fearing God and having no personal goal

other than serving the welfare of the Muslim community.

Once the process of consultation has led to an acceptable view,

they must all join the chosen course.

If it later transpires that it is the right course,

they are happy.

If it happens to be the wrong choice,

no one is accused of dictatorship.

They go back to the community and start the process of consultation again.

This is absolutely true, Umar.

Your attitude today will be remembered by Muslims for the rest of time.

It will be a lantern to guide them. It will be their yardstick.

Now that revelations have ceased with the death of God's Messenger,

Muslims must take their guidance from God's book, the Prophet's sunnah

and agreement through consultation.

In this way, no one will be able to claim

that he alone has the right understanding of God's book,

asserting that it opens up only to him

and imposing his authority on people.

But we heard that voices were loud in the meeting place.

People disagreed and opinions were hotly debated.

Selfishness appeared to get the better of some people,

before they eventually agreed on Abu Bakr.

What is consultation, then, Abdullah?

It means that people will press their views

according to their understanding and assessment of each situation.

They will respond to one another until they all, or their majority, agree to one view.

They all then accept it.

As for differences of aims and desires among some people,

well we leave this to God.

We cannot open people's hearts and minds.

We neither claim that we are better than others,

nor judge people without clear evidence.

God has not made any of us infallible.

We may err despite having the best of intentions.

Someone may say what is true although he harbours falsehood.

We must not refuse what is right because we suspect its advocate.

We have the better claim to what is right.

"A believer always seeks wisdom; and he must claim it wherever he finds it."

Learn this:

people will be unfair to the Prophet's companions

if they consider them infallible,

or if they raise them above the rank of ordinary humans,

no matter how pious and God-fearing they are.

If they do and then find that someone has acted in a way which they do not approve,

they will discard him and accuse him of insincerity in faith.

After that, there will be people who do not love God and His Messenger.

They will take that as a means to attack Islam itself.

Absolutely. Were people to believe that the Prophet's companions are infallible,

they will underestimate their own ability,

on the basis that they have no such infallibility.

This will be a pretext for disunity.

On the other hand, if people think well of the Prophet's companions,

recognizing that they are ordinary human beings who may make mistakes,

they will continue to hope that God will bestow His grace on them if they err.

They will follow the Prophet's companions when they are unanimous

and acknowledge their status when they differ.

O' people,

you all know what I did and said yesterday

when I heard the news of the Prophet's death.

I said something that expressed my own feelings.

I did not see this in God's book,

nor was it something the Prophet had told me.

What made me say what I said

was the fact that I read the Qur'anic verse that said:

"Thus We have made you the community (ummah) of the middle way,"

"so that you may stand witness against the rest of mankind,"

"and the Messenger shall be a witness against you."

I felt that God's Messenger

will remain among his community until he witnesses the last of its actions.

This is the reason that made me say what I said.

God has given you what contains the guidance shown to you by His Messenger.

If you hold tight to it,

it will give you the right guidance.

God has enabled you to agree to choose as your leader the best man among you,

God's Messenger's only companion

who was with him when he was hiding in the cave.

He is the best qualified to lead.

Come and give him your pledges of loyalty.

All praise be to God who has guided us to this.

We would be bereft of guidance unless He has guides us.

O' you people, I have been chosen to lead you,

and I am not the best among you.

If I do well, help me;

and if I do wrong, correct me.

Truth is a trust and lying is a breach of trust.

The weak among you are strong in my sight

until I have ensured that they have their rights.

The strong among you are weak in my sight

until I have ensured right and justice.

Obey me as long as I obey God and His Messenger.

If I disobey them, I forfeit all claim to your obedience.

Now rise to offer your prayers. May God bestow mercy on you all.

People of the Abd Manaf clan,

how come that Abu Bakr is chosen

and approved by all people when he is from the Taim clan,

the smallest and most humble clan in Quraysh.

If you wish, I can raise a great force against him

and take it by force.

God forbid that we should create division among the Muslims.

By God, you are only creating strife.

We have no need for your advice.

Wait a minute, Abu Al-Hasan.

I only wish to support you,

if you have been forced to accept this arrangement.

By God, Abu Sufyan,

your heart has not been freed of the traces of jahiliyyah.

You continue to think prophethood a source of pride

or a kingdom for which tribes may compete.

God has abolished the allegiance to tribe

and family ancestry that prevailed in the days of jahiliyyah.

Did you not listen to God's Messenger

when he reminded people of their single origin?

He said: "All of you descend from Adam, and Adam was created out of clay".

Now you come to say Taim and Abd Manaf?

Isn't it time for you, Abu Sufyan,

to understand that it is a message from God to all mankind?

As for the leadership after the Prophet,

had we thought that Abu Bakr is not suitable for it

we would have said so.

Ali is not a man to hesitate in stating the truth as he sees it,

fearing no criticism by anyone.

Don't you have a stronger claim to it,

since you are the Prophet's cousin and son-in-law?

God's Messenger was a prophet and a messenger, not a king.

Would I create division and weaken the Muslims

when we are most in need of our strength

after such waves of Arab apostasy?

Would I sit in my home in dissent

while the Muslims march to fight the apostates and defend the land of Islam?

Far be this from me; very far, Abu Sufyan!

Abu Al-Hasan: what delayed your pledge of loyalty to Abu Bakr?

People look up to you.

You know, Umar, that I was busy with the Prophet's funeral arrangements.

Then his daughter was very ill.

I would have preferred that you delayed the choice

so that we could put in our opinion.

God knows that we had no interest in speeding it

other than our fear that the Muslims might be disunited at this time

when dangers threaten them from every quarter.

Ali. - Ali.

Here comes Ali.

You are the Prophet's successor.

Your hand so that I give you my pledge of loyalty

People of Islam!

The Caliph has issued an order that the army under the command of Usamah Ibn Zaid

is to be dispatched on its mission raised by God's Messenger before his death

Every soldier of Usamah's army must join its assembly place at Al-Jurf.

Everyone in Usamah's army must join.

Make sure to be there today.

The Caliph will meet you all at Al-Jurf.

Apostasy has swayed the Arabs, as you are well aware.

You want to dispatch Usamah's army

which includes the bulk of the Muhajireen and the Ansar and the bravest people.

We fear that they may launch a surprise attack in our absence,

and that the Bedouin idolaters may besiege Madinah

and attack you and the Muslims here.

Madinah is the place of God's Messenger and his legacy.

If you keep the army here,

you will strengthen your defences against them.

By God Almighty, if I am certain that wild beasts will be snatching me,

I will still dispatch Usamah's army, as God's Messenger had ordered.

I am not one to undo something God's Messenger has started.

If I am the only one left here, I will still dispatch this army.

Do you understand me, Umar?

Go back to Usamah and his men

Do not leave the army unless you receive my orders.

Some leading and elder figures of the Ansar talked to me privately.

They said: If you insist that we must go ahead,

they would prefer that you give the command to someone older than Usamah.

May your mother lose you, Umar.

He was appointed by God's Messenger and you are asking me to replace him?

Father!

Father, save the people, for they are heading to the fire.

We obeyed Muhammad when he was alive, after we embraced Islam.

Now that he is dead, we owe obedience to no one.

We will revert to what we were before it.

Let not those who used to look up to you for leadership hold power now.

What a foul advice!

Move away. May God blacken your face and what you said.

Move away.

People of Makkah.

Do not be the last to embrace Islam and the first to desert it.

By God, this matter of Islam will come to its fullness,

as God's Messenger (peace be upon him) mentioned.